The heart of fruitfulness is that my heart flows to yours. Fruitfulness is what philosopher Martin Buber calls, an I-thou relationship “I do this because of who I am in my inner self and I show reverence for who you are in your essence (I-thou).” By contrast an I-it relationship…

Do you feel that you are being pushed to your physical and psychological limits by time pressures and the sheer volume of work? Are we destroying ourselves and our planet with the continual push for growth? Sound like corporate heresy? According to the US Department of Labor-Bureau of Labor Statistics…

You are not your history Consider, * The alcoholic woman with ten years of recovery under her belt. * The failed business that reinvented itself and now is an example of success in its industry. All stories of people who survived tough times and creatively wrote new chapters for their…

Deep knowing comes from many sources beyond the rational mind. You are walking down dark road and sense danger ahead. You take a side road instead. Later you learn that there were muggers on your original path. You wake up from a dream and intuit that an important message was…

I quit my affiliation with the Evangelical church three decades ago. In fact today I no longer darken the door of any house of religion. Nor do millions of other exiles that list their affiliation with institutionalized religion as “none of the above.” But where do we go next? Agnosticism…

There are times when you just have to exit an untenable situation. That may be true in everything from a relationship to a work context. I know. We have to hang in there because the job market is volatile. Resilience is a good thing to learn. Difficult times don’t last…

Have you ever been accused of being a daydreamer? If so, you were probably given a bad rap because it was a way of criticizing you for some perceived “non-doing” state. Daydreamers slip into a short-term detachment from their immediate surroundings. …

Forgiveness -The Gift We Give Ourselves Sometimes we are emotionally wounded by the negative behaviors of other people toward us, resulting in disabling feelings of hurt, anger, and/or resentment. Forgiveness is a process that enables us to let go of that resentment. Though many would agree that forgiveness is the best way to free us from…